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Category Archives: Behind the scenes

New video online – Strobist photoshoot in a harvested field

Hey ho, I just finished the upload for my new Behind the scenes Video (#5) on YouTube. The photo shoot was in late summer 2009 with Dorota Szymanska (you may know her from one of my earlier posts) and it was one of my first assignments I did with several Nikon Speedlites. It was a newspaper photo series of ten politicians for the election to the german parliament (Bundestag). For me it was a great experience, because I photographed ten…

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Chief Executive Portraits in Hamburg

The last days had been very exhausting. I had some appointments for two news-agencies and drove about 1.400 kilometers (850 miles) and often slept less than five hours a night. The days included a very interesting portrait shooting in Hamburg of the chief executive of the restaurant chain “Jim Block”, Mr. Dirk Block. He was kind to grant me around 30 minutes of his time to photograph him in different poses. It’s very difficult to photograph a busy man like…

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On assignment: The elephant’s robotic trunk

Today I was in Gˆttingen in the south of State Lower Saxony to photograph a just invented new robot. The scientists there named it the “robotic elephant’s trunk” because of the look and the same behavior that simulate an elephant’s trunk (surprise, surprise!). Okay, if you ever have seen something like CSI or movies that played in science laboratories you first would expect a very stylish ambient and think that photographers will be in heaven on an assignment in somewhat…

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Shooting with Dorota Szymanska for polish magazine Zwierciadlo

Hi there, time to use the new blog layout to show some biiiiiiiiiiiig pictures: Around christmas I had an assignment with Dorota Szymanska, a german politician who immigrated long time ago from Poland to Germany. Now the polish magazine Zwierclado wanted to get some nice pictures of her for a story of female immigrants who are successful in the foreign countries. I knew Dorota from a shooting during the summer when I photographed her for a local newspaper. She is…

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New blog-layout finished & new portfolio-design on the way

Sometimes it’s not bad if you’re sick with temperature and not able to go out into a cold winters day: After several weeks of ineffectual programming and designing I used the days at home and finished the new blog layout on saturday evening *hooooray*. The new blog has several improvements. It’s much cleaner without a sidebar but with space for showing big pictures. The plugins behind make it much easier to post a bunch of photos in a post with…

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